Dr. Gibbons is an Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins’ Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Gibbons’ is an Urban Health expert and informatician who works primarily in the area of Consumer Health informatics where he focuses on using Health Information and Communications Technologies to improve urban healthcare disparities.

He is an advisor and expert consultant to several state and federal agencies and policymakers in the areas of urban health, eHealth, minority health and healthcare disparities. Dr. Gibbons is leading a Systematic Evidence Review on the impact of Consumer Health Informatics Applications for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and has been named a Health Disparities Scholar by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Gibbons is currently serving on a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council committee investigating the role of human factors in the delivery of healthcare in nonclinical home and community settings. Dr. Gibbon’s has recently authored the book entitled “eHealth Solutions for Healthcare Disparities” and his research is leading the development of the emerging field of Populomics.

Dr. Gibbons obtained his medical degree from the University of Alabama. He then completed residency training in Preventive Medicine, a molecular oncology research fellowship and earned a Master of Public Health degree focusing in health promotion among urban and disadvantaged populations all from Johns Hopkins.

Minorities, Cancer, Disparities, Interventions, Community Health Workers, Patient Navigator, Underserved, Populomics, eHealth, Informatics, Compunetics, Cardiovascular Disease, Consumer Health Informatics

Member, Maryland Health Care Commission's Health Information Technology Steering Committee

Member, Maryland Health Care Commission's Task Force to Study Electronic Health Records

National Advisory Board Member, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records” Project

President-Elect, The International Society for Urban Health

HEALTH DISPARITIES SCHOLAR, National Center for Minority Health and Health Dispariies, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

2004 DISTINGUISHED BLACK MARYLANDER AWARD, Towson University for an African-American resident whose life and career have made a significant contribution to the state of Maryland.

1998 J. HOWARD BEARD AWARD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health award for a physician with outstanding community service involvement and future promise in the field of public health.

Peer Reviewed Publications

• Gibbons, MC. POPULOMICS. Stud. Health Technol. Inform. 137:265-268, 2008

• Jean G. Ford, Mollie W. Howerton, Gabriel Y. Lai, Tiffany L. Gary, Shari Bolen, MC Gibbons, Jon Tilburt,, Charles Baffi, Teerath Peter Tanpitukpongse, Renee F. Wilson, Neil R. Powe, Eric B. Bass, BARRIERS TO RECRUITING UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS TO CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, Cancer 112:228-242, 2008

• Gibbons MC, Tyus N, SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF U.S.-BASED RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS USING

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS. Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 2007;1(4):371-381

• Gibbons MC, Brock M, Alberg AJ, Glass T, LaVeist TA, Baylin S, Levine D, Fox CE, THE SOCIO-BIOLOGIC INTEGRATIVE MODEL (SBIM): ENHANCING THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIO-BEHAVIORAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIO-MOLECULAR KNOWLEDGE. J Urban Health. 2007 Mar;84(2):198-211

• Howerton MW, Gibbons MC, Baffi CR, Gary TL, Lai GY, Bolen S, Tilburt J, Tanpitukpongse TP, Wilson RF, Powe NR, Bass EB, Ford JG. PROVIDER ROLES IN THE RECRUITMENT OF UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS TO CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS. Cancer. 2007 Feb 1;109(3):465-76.

• Tyus N, Fremman RJ, Gibbons MC, DEVELOPMENT OF A REPLICALBLE PROCESS FOR TRANSLATING SCIENCE INTO PRACTICAL HEALTH MESSAGES, Journal of the National Medical Association 2006;98(9);1505-1509

• Gibbons MC, HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND EMERGING THEMES IN COMPUNETICS Journal of Information Technology in Healthcare 2006;4(4):201-209

• Gibbons MC, “COMMON GROUND” EXPLORING POLICY APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPARITIES FROM THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT Journal of Healthcare Law and Policy 2006;9(1);

• Lai G, Gary T, Tilburt J, Bolen S, Baffi C, Wilson R, Howerton M, Gibbons MC, Tanpitukpongse T, Powe N, Bass E, Ford J, EFFECTIVENESS OF STRATEGIES TO RECRUIT UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS INTO CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS Clinical Trials: The Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials Clin Trials. 2006;3(2):133-41

• Gibbons MC, A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF HEALTH DISPARITIES AND THE PROMISE OF EHEALTH SOLUTIONS J Med Internet Res 2005 (Oct 4); 7(5):e50

• Ford JG, Howerton MW, Bolen S, Gary TL, Lai GY, Tilburt J, Gibbons MC, Baffi C, Wilson RF, Feuerstein CJ, Tanpitukpongse P, Powe NR, Bass EB. KNOWLEDGE AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON RECRUITMENT OF UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS TO CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS. EVIDENCE REPORT/TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT NO. 122 (Prepared by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0018.) AHRQ Publication No. 05-E019-2. Rockville, MD. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 2005.

• Fox CE, Gibbons MC.DISASTER RESPONSE:ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL J Urban Health. 2005 Dec;82(4):517-9.

• Fox CE, Morford TG, Fine A, Gibbons MC.THE JOHNS HOPKINS URBAN HEALTH INSTITUTE: A COLLABORATIVE RESPONSE TO URBAN HEALTH ISSUES. Acad Med. 2004 Dec;79(12):1169-74.

• Guyer B, Gibbons MC,URBAN HEALTH: DISCIPLINE OR FIELD-DOES IT MATTER? J Urban Health 2004;81(2):165-167

• Haroun RI, Clatterbuck RE, Gibbons MC, Burger PC, Parker R, Fruehauf JP, Brem H. EXTREME DRUG RESISTANCE IN PRIMARY BRAIN TUMORS: IN VITRO ANALYSIS OF 64 RESECTION SPECIMENS. J Neurooncol. 2002 Jun;58(2):115-23.

• Li Q, Jedlicka A, Ahuja N, Gibbons MC, Baylin SB, Burger PC, Issa JP. CONCORDANT METHYLATION OF THE ER AND N33 GENES IN GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME. Oncogene. 1998 Jun 18;16(24):3197-202.